Rowan Walters

“They took one look at Zip2’s code and began rewriting the vast majority of the software. Musk bristled at some of their changes, but the computer scientists needed just a fraction of the lines of code that Musk used to get their jobs done. They had a knack for dividing software projects into chunks that could be altered and refined whereas Musk fell into the classic self-taught coder trap of writing what developers call hairballs—big, monolithic hunks of code that could go berserk for mysterious reasons.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

“Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.”
― Quentin Crisp

“The power which has always started the greatest religious and political avalanches in history rolling has from time immemorial been the magic power of the spoken word, and that alone. The broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech.”
― William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

“There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.”
― Quentin Crisp